Woke up this morning ( Saturday ) in Lithgow and tiny hail balls were flying fast at a 45 degree angle .... then 10 mins later we had intermittent snow flakes .... then 10 mins later some sunshine with tiny hail balls again. It was literally 15 weather events going all at once!
The wife and I jump in the car at 9am and head toward Katoomba ... going through Browns Gap we are hit with a complete white out blizzard with winds gusting so hard the now maple leaf sized snow flakes are literally blowing horizontally! We were pretty much in the ski fields of NSW all of a sudden!
As we were heading up Victoria Pass on the final sharp bend ... out of the white out we see two people in the middle of the road frantically waving their arms and I gently yanked the anchors to see two cars smashed up in the middle of the road on the bend .... damn!
There was one copper on the scene who was checking on the occupants as the acky had just happened. A few cars were already banked on the opposite side of the road and we passed slowly between the wrecks and moved on to Katoomba through the white out. As we reached Mt Victoria we passed about 4 Fire engines going towards the pass, two Ambo's and 1 Bush Fire truck.
When we got to Katoomba it was still snowing on and off all day amidst the sunshine ... we were told there was another acky just after we passed through Mt Vic! Thing is, tourists come up from Sydney ( Weekenders ) having no experience of the roads or the conditions and take it for granted ... we have accidents like these every weekend but today's weather was exceptional!
Beautiful day up in the Mtns apart from that ... made for a Christmas like atmosphere. :)
Tiki.
